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Feng Tang 856dbac0a8 clocksource: Suspend the watchdog temporarily when high read latency detected 
[ Upstream commit b7082cdfc4 ]

Bugs have been reported on 8 sockets x86 machines in which the TSC was
wrongly disabled when the system is under heavy workload.

 [ 818.380354] clocksource: timekeeping watchdog on CPU336: hpet wd-wd read-back delay of 1203520ns
 [ 818.436160] clocksource: wd-tsc-wd read-back delay of 181880ns, clock-skew test skipped!
 [ 819.402962] clocksource: timekeeping watchdog on CPU338: hpet wd-wd read-back delay of 324000ns
 [ 819.448036] clocksource: wd-tsc-wd read-back delay of 337240ns, clock-skew test skipped!
 [ 819.880863] clocksource: timekeeping watchdog on CPU339: hpet read-back delay of 150280ns, attempt 3, marking unstable
 [ 819.936243] tsc: Marking TSC unstable due to clocksource watchdog
 [ 820.068173] TSC found unstable after boot, most likely due to broken BIOS. Use 'tsc=unstable'.
 [ 820.092382] sched_clock: Marking unstable (818769414384, 1195404998)
 [ 820.643627] clocksource: Checking clocksource tsc synchronization from CPU 267 to CPUs 0,4,25,70,126,430,557,564.
 [ 821.067990] clocksource: Switched to clocksource hpet

This can be reproduced by running memory intensive 'stream' tests,
or some of the stress-ng subcases such as 'ioport'.

The reason for these issues is the when system is under heavy load, the
read latency of the clocksources can be very high.  Even lightweight TSC
reads can show high latencies, and latencies are much worse for external
clocksources such as HPET or the APIC PM timer.  These latencies can
result in false-positive clocksource-unstable determinations.

These issues were initially reported by a customer running on a production
system, and this problem was reproduced on several generations of Xeon
servers, especially when running the stress-ng test.  These Xeon servers
were not production systems, but they did have the latest steppings
and firmware.

Given that the clocksource watchdog is a continual diagnostic check with
frequency of twice a second, there is no need to rush it when the system
is under heavy load.  Therefore, when high clocksource read latencies
are detected, suspend the watchdog timer for 5 minutes.

Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
Cc: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
History 2023-03-10 09:33:50 +01:00
arch x86/bugs: Reset speculation control settings on init 2023-03-10 09:33:49 +01:00
block blk-cgroup: synchronize pd_free_fn() from blkg_free_workfn() and blkcg_deactivate_policy() 2023-03-10 09:33:46 +01:00
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ipc ipc: fix memory leak in init_mqueue_fs() 2022-12-31 13:32:01 +01:00
kernel clocksource: Suspend the watchdog temporarily when high read latency detected 2023-03-10 09:33:50 +01:00
lib cpuidle: lib/bug: Disable rcu_is_watching() during WARN/BUG 2023-03-10 09:33:47 +01:00
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README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.